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Return to World in the Making Volume 2 Student Resources
Chapter 17 Student Quiz
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In the early modern period, most western Africans made a living as _____.
Agriculturalists.
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Industrial workers.
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Hunter-gatherers.
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Pastoralists.
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Animal husbandry was far more developed in Western Africa than in either Eurasia or the Americas.
True.
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False.
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The kingdoms of Mali and Songhai were both linked into the Mediterranean world via _____.
The Indian Ocean trade.
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Similar religious beliefs.
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Trade routes across the Sahara.
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Missionaries that traveled the Sahara.
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Most West Central Africans practiced subsistence agriculture without beasts of burden to pull their plows, primarily because _____.
They had no domesticated large animal.s
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Tsetse flies decimated large livestock in the region.
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Diseases like malaria made death rates too high.
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They lacked ambition to create a more efficient agricultural system.
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Blacksmiths were vitally important to the survival of early modern kingdoms because _____.
They made swords to equip armies.
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Farmers depended on them for agricultural implements.
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They built ships for trade down dangerous rivers.
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They knew how to find valuable metals for trade.
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The warring states of West Africa produced one major commodity for trade, _____.
Gold.
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Salt.
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Slaves.
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Textiles.
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Queen Nzinga of Ndongo helped her people to survive by _____.
Defeating the Portuguese.
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Allying with the Portuguese and defeating her enemies.
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Adapting and building her own slave trading state.
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Rejecting European ways in favor of African traditions.
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The capture of African slaves was primarily done by Africans.
True.
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False.
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The number of African slaves brought to the New World between the 16th and early 19th centuries was _____.
Roughly 2 million.
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Between 4 and 5 million.
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Between 20 and 50 million.
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Between 10 and 12 million.
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Like their Bantu neighbors, Pygmies venerated their dead ancestors.
True.
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False.
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